Lies My Father Told Me

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Her face when she figures out that Roslin was telling the truth about Adama lying about knowing where Earth was is this crazy mix of rueful and angry and stubborn. What do you think would have happened if he'd told her the truth and leveled with her? I think Kara would've understood his desire to give people something to hope for. But what about her own personal beliefs in the scripture and the parable of the 13th tribe/the "myth" of Earth? Would those still have sent her back searching for that arrow?
 

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[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

OK, I was watching "Home" again last night and was really touched by the emotions in Adama's reunion with Kara. (Also, what is up with Sharon ruining Kara's reunions with the Adama boys? First she screws up Kara and Lee in "Home" Pt. 1, and now here in this one, she pops up just as Adama is - I'm sure - about to give Kara a hug too. Good grief, Sharon, learn some timing!) Anyway ... I really think that the revelation that Adama was lying about Earth is what motivated Kara to go off and get the Arrow. She's grown up with an absent father and then she gets this new father, Adama, whom she loves and trusts completely ... and then it turns out he was lying to her all this time. I think Kara was both pissed off AND betrayed that he didn't include her in the secret.

(Conversely, just from Lee's face early on when Adama first mentions earth, I think he always suspected his father was spinning a line. Plus, unlike Kara, I don't think he idealized his father at that point - or maybe ever ;P - so the revelation of his father's lie wasn't such a powerful motivator for him which is why - in the deleted scene - he basically shrugs and is all "no, President Roslin, I'm not breaking my oaths and going off to get the arrow.")

It's interesting to me that both Kara and Lee at this juncture react to a betrayal by Adama: for Kara, he betrays their personal relationship ("I love you like a daughter") with the revelation of the lie; for Lee, he betrays a principle (democratic control of the military) by attempting a military coup.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Ha! Maybe that is why I never liked Sharon. ;)

I do agree that she believed Adama and felt betrayed, and that Lee knew (because obviously he knew his father didn't believe in the Gods and probably didn't take any stock in those religious myths and prophecies, and was of the same mind) it was a lie. I haven't watched it in a while, but wasn't he angry at Roslin for approaching Kara after he said no? Was he also mad at Adama? (I mean, when is he not, but specifically for something here?)

I think it's a good symbolization (OMG I MISS WHEN THIS SHOW WAS AWESOME LIKE THIS SOMETHING FIERCE SUDDENLY) of how they both work (as per usual)--Kara responds to the personal betrayal and Lee to the moral betrayal.